The rom folder survey joined 463 folders to their default core's whole
profile, no system of it matching. SYSTEM_ALIASES, the one table
_norm_system_id reads, now folds ten more spellings of one machine:
apple2gs, astrocade, astrocde, creativision, gamepocketcomputer,
nintendo-super-game-boy, cps1, cps2, cps3 and pgm. The profiles that
used them take the canonical id (mame, groovymame, mamemess, mame0258,
mame0278, bsnes, mesen-s, mesence, jollycv, fbalpha2012 and its three
CPS cores, fbneo_cps12), as test_system_ids requires.
With bsnes and bsnes-hd now filing SGB1.sfc under one system, their
claims fold onto one report entry. _names_content read only the first
claim, hashless, and nSide's SGB1.sfc/ tree took the path before the
file. A hash on any folded claim now counts: every pack keeps the
destinations it had.
The site drops the eight display names the canonical ids replace and
names tvgames. README counts 533 systems instead of 541.
Every board set sits on its board page whatever folder holds it, a set a
reviewed machine owns joins that machine (neogeo.zip under SNK, the Atom
under Acorn, the MZ-2000 under Sharp), and a game engine's files form one
section named after it. Board pages drop the heading that repeated their
title, parts drop the Part of line their crumbs already say, and pages
that moved redirect.
siterender.arcade_board(sha1) names the board a set archive is the
BIOS of, from the profiles' bios_zip entries and their contents CRC32s,
never the folder. board_slug(id) gives the section slug. A board links
once the system pages call record_board_section(), so no page links a
section nobody wrote. Thirteen ids whose files sit in one program's
folder get a reviewed parent, mz800 the Sharp MZ section. The link
test counts set archives.
A reviewed SYSTEM_PARENTS table leads variants (WonderSwan Color, Neo Geo MVS, MSX2) to the section holding their files, an Arcade heading that reads the name exactly is accepted, and system_search_aliases() gives the platforms' native ids for search. 260 of 636 ids linked before, 338 after.
Abdessamad Derraz